China could order $1 trillion dollar in airplanes. Nightly Business Report April 2018. Boeing.
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The Vanguard Total International Fund has about 15% allocated to England and 15% to Japan. It seems to favor European stocks. Brazil, Russia, India and China have less than 5% allocations. The overall investment fees are reasonable at 0.22%.
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Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Investor Shares provides significantly more exposure to Brazil, Russia, India and China. It is significantly more volatile, with a 50 percent drop and 70% increase around the financial crisis. Expense ratios are 0.33%. The fund has 20% invested in China. Other countries with greater than 10% allocation are India, Taiwan, and Brazil.
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Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP owns 12.2 percent of China Literature. Tencent Holdings' online publishing arm. Raised $1.1 billion for ipo. finance
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China could order $1 trillion dollar in airplanes. Nightly Business Report April 2018. Boeing.
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August 2019 sold a SPY covered call at 0.99 on the day of expiration and then bought it back at 0.10 later in the day. Trade tensions with China caused some volatility 8/2/19 but the S and P 500 recovered by the end of the day. #finance
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Apple stock has gone from $155 to $265 in 2019. There was some concern about the next generation of iPhones and the trade war with China. This is a more than 50 percent return for the year. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) has gone from 50 to 63 and still offers a 5% dividend.
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Apple stock is at 313 in January 2020. It was down to $150 a year prior due to IS China trade tensions. The stock market has some irrational swings.
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March 2020 - the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 10 percent due to the coronavirus, a respiratory infection that started in China. SPY is an ETF for the Standard and Poor's 500. The price has dropped from 339.08 in February 2020 to 302 on March 5, 2020. The dividend yield is 1.9 percent. However in 2015, the stock had $4 in dividends and the price was near 200 , a similar yield. Schwab US Broad Market ETF SCHB tracks the 2500 largest stocks in the market. It's dropped from 82 to 72 and has a 1.96 percent yield. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet account for about 15% of the holdings but it also has small cap stocks. It has exposure to the growth in small cap or mid cap stocks that can become the next Microsoft or Google. #stocks
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The virus spread through all of China in 30 days. "overall case-fatality rate (CFR) was 2.3% (1023 deaths among 44 672 confirmed cases). No deaths occurred in the group aged 9 years and younger, but cases in those aged 70 to 79 years had an 8.0% CFR and cases in those aged 80 years and older had a 14.8% CFR" #coronavirus JAMA 2020
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Clinical outcome of 55 asymptomatic cases at the time of hospital admission infected with SARS-Coronavirus-2 in Shenzhen, China " 3.6% asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection might take a turn for the worse" - March 2020 Journal of Infectious Disease #coronavirus
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